Where does Metabolic Explorer rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Metabolic Explorer ranks #10,099 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Metabolic Explorer hold?

Metabolic Explorer holds 31 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Metabolic Explorer's Innovation Score?

Metabolic Explorer has an Innovation Score of 33.0 out of 100 (top 57% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Metabolic Explorer's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Metabolic Explorer's recent grant velocity is -37% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Metabolic Explorer's patents?

Metabolic Explorer's patents average 14.4 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the Metabolic Explorer patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Metabolic Explorer

Q: What technology areas does Metabolic Explorer focus on?

Metabolic Explorer's top technology area is C12P (FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIRED CHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERS FROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE) with 31 patents. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 31 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: C12P (FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIRED CHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERS FROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Metabolic ranks #10,099 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 31 patents across 9 technology areas.

#10,099
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 57%
by Innovation Score (33.0/100): 14.4
avg claims per patent: -37%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10099 · Foreign Corporation #10,099 · 31 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 31 grants
UPPER-Q #10,099/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Mawetal
CPC-NARROW C12P · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -37% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Mawetal Llc (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fox Hardwood Lumber · near

33
Integrity Products &… · near

33
Lemken & KG · near

33
Metabolic Explorer · this assignee

33
Synergy Blue · near

33
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Metabolic Explorer stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-NARROW, INNOV-THIN, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-DOWN, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #10,099 of 50,000; Innovation Score 33.0/100 sits in the top 57% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Mawetal Llc (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Metabolic Explorer has been granted 31 US utility patents between 2015 and 2023, placing Metabolic Explorer at #10,099 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 9 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 14.4 claims per patent with primary concentration in C12P (FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIRED CHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERS FROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE). As a Foreign Corporation, Metabolic Explorer is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Metabolic sits between MD Healthcare Inc. (31 patents, rank #10,093) and Micro Mobio Corporation (31 patents, rank #10,101) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 33.0/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 12 grants, compared with 19 in the 2015–2019 window, a -37% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Metabolic Explorer's 14.4 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 9 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

MD Healthcare

31
Medtrum

31
Meishan BOYA Adva…

31
Merck Serono

31
Microdose Therape…

31
Mawetal

31
Mentor Worldwide

31
Micro Mobio

31
Metabolic Explorer ◀

31

What this shows Metabolic holds 31 patents at rank #10,097, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Metabolic

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,097 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A De…)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Metabolic's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Metabolic, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (33 here).

Fox Hardwood Lumber Company, Llc 33 Lemken Gmbh & Co. KG 33 Integrity Products & Supplies Inc. 33 Synergy Blue, Llc 33

Metabolic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

33 Top 57% higher than 43% of 50,000 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Metabolic Explorer patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	32.3%
2016	6	19.4%
2017	1	3.2%
2019	2	6.5%
2020	5	16.1%
2021	4	12.9%
2022	1	3.2%
2023	2	6.5%

Which technologies does Metabolic Explorer patent most?

C12P - FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIRED CHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERS FROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE 31

C12N - MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING, OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; CULTURE MEDIA 26

C12Y - ENZYMES 14

Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION 7

C07K - PEPTIDES 6

C12R - INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES C12C - C12Q, RELATING TO MICROORGANISMS 4

Y02P - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS 4

C07C - ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS 1

C07H - SUGARS; DERIVATIVES THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; NUCLEIC ACIDS 1

Top 9 of 9 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#10,099

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

33.0 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

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